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1 Mühle
f; -, -n2. fig. (monotone Tätigkeit) treadmill; in die Mühle der Justiz / Bürokratie geraten get caught up in the machinery of the law / get caught in the bureaucratic machine; jemanden durch die Mühle drehen umg. put s.o. through the mill (Am. auch wringer)4. umg., meist pej. (Auto) heap, pile of junk; (auch Flugzeug) (old) crate; (auch Fahrrad) rattletrap* * *die Mühle(Kaffeemühle) grinder;(Müllerei) mill* * *Müh|le ['myːlə]f -, -n1) mill; (= Kaffeemühle) grinderdie Mǘhlen der Justiz mahlen langsam — the wheels of justice grind slowly
3) (= Mühlespiel) nine men's morris (esp Brit)4) (inf) (Auto) banger (Brit inf jalopy (inf); (Fahrrad) boneshaker (Brit inf); (Flugzeug) crate (inf)* * *die1) (a person or machine that grinds: a coffee-grinder.) grinder2) (an electrical device used in cookery to grind up food.) liquidizer3) (an electrical device used in cookery to grind up food.) liquidiser4) (a machine, sometimes now electrical, for grinding coffee, pepper etc by crushing it between rough, hard surfaces: a coffee-mill; a pepper-mill.) mill5) (a building where grain is ground: The farmer took his corn to the mill.) mill* * *Müh·le<-, -n>[ˈmy:lə]f1. (Wassermühle) mill6.* * *die; Mühle, Mühlen1) millin die Mühle der Justiz geraten — (fig.) become enmeshed in the wheels or machinery of justice
das ist Wasser auf seine Mühle — (ugs.) it's [all] grist to his mill; it just confirms what he has always thought
2) (KaffeeMühle) [coffee-] grinder3) (Spiel) o. Art., o. Pl. nine men's morris4) (Konstellation beim Mühlespiel) mill5) (ugs. abwertend) (Auto, Motorrad) heap (coll.); (Auto, Flugzeug) crate (coll.); (Fahrrad) rattletrap; boneshaker* * *2. fig (monotone Tätigkeit) treadmill;in die Mühle der Justiz/Bürokratie geraten get caught up in the machinery of the law/get caught in the bureaucratic machine;* * *die; Mühle, Mühlen1) millin die Mühle der Justiz geraten — (fig.) become enmeshed in the wheels or machinery of justice
das ist Wasser auf seine Mühle — (ugs.) it's [all] grist to his mill; it just confirms what he has always thought
2) (KaffeeMühle) [coffee-] grinder3) (Spiel) o. Art., o. Pl. nine men's morris4) (Konstellation beim Mühlespiel) mill5) (ugs. abwertend) (Auto, Motorrad) heap (coll.); (Auto, Flugzeug) crate (coll.); (Fahrrad) rattletrap; boneshaker* * *-n f.grinder n.mill n.
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